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Kun Qian
Verified Expert in Engineering
Front-end Developer
San Jose, CA, United States
Toptal member since August 15, 2022
Bio
Kun is a front-end engineer with over four years of professional experience, currently working at TikTok. Passionate about his deliverables, he focuses on building performant and modern web products with delightful user experiences. Kun advocates the integration of social media, eCommerce, usability, and SEO into the products to increase growth potential.
Portfolio
ByteDance
JavaScript, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Vue, Vuex, React, HTML, Tailwind CSS...
CData Software
Sass, Webpack, ASP.NET, C#, Vue, Vuex, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Figma...
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
JavaScript, PHP, WordPress, Red Hat OpenShift, Vue, Sass, CSS...
Experience
- WordPress - 5 years
- Sass - 5 years
- JavaScript - 5 years
- Vue - 5 years
- Vuex - 3 years
- Usability Testing - 1 year
- React - 1 year
- Tailwind CSS - 1 year
Work Experience
Front-end Engineer
2021 - PRESENT
ByteDance
- Revamped the campaign creation experience for advertisers in the Creator Marketplace in collaboration with the product manager and UX designer, which increased the order conversion rate.
- Engineered UX components for key functional parts like the creator shortlist and the open application.
- Expanded the US front-end team by mentoring a new joiner and two interns.
- Ensured product quality by adding end-to-end tests using the company-specific end-to-end library.
- Used Vue.js And Nuxt.js for desktop-creator marketplace website development and server-side rendering; and React for mobile in-app web-view development.
Technologies: JavaScript, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Vue, Vuex, React, HTML, Tailwind CSS, Sass, Nuxt.js, CSS, User Experience (UX), Figma, TypeScript
Front-end Developer
2019 - 2021
CData Software
- Expanded the connectivity ability of the company's product to the web building the enterprise UI in Google Sheets and Google Data Studio with Vue.js.
- Revamped the company's product help documentation experience and changed build-flow to use modern static site generators.
- Supported and maintained the company website's front and back end.
Technologies: Sass, Webpack, ASP.NET, C#, Vue, Vuex, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Figma, User Experience (UX), TypeScript, Google Data Studio, Google Sheets
Part-time Web Developer
2017 - 2019
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Developed and implemented a lab website from scratch.
- Deployed the lab's projects using the Carolina CloudApps platform and added data metrics that revealed longer web page engagement periods.
- Extended WordPress and Drupal-based web projects as part of my role.
- Assisted with archiving, curating, and updating web-based projects.
- Shipped new features and added enhancements to Prospect, a Vue-based data visualization tool developed by the team.
Technologies: JavaScript, PHP, WordPress, Red Hat OpenShift, Vue, Sass, CSS, User Experience (UX)
Project History
TikTok Creator Marketplace
https://creatormarketplace.tiktok.com/A platform connecting TikTok content creators with advertisers to help creators generate income and help advertisers improve brand exposure. I am the front-end engineer collaborating with back-end, data, and machine learning engineers to build functional components of the collaboration flow, such as campaign creation form, creator shortlist, reporting, event analysis, etc.
CData Connector for Google Sheets
Connected Google Sheets to live data from hundreds of enterprise data sources through a native, easy-to-use Google Sheets Add-On. I was the front-end developer for the whole add-on UI and complimented the data transfer process between the UI and back-end APIs.
Carolina Digital Humanities
Built a WordPress website for the school's digital innovation lab. I was the developer of the whole project, starting from general UX design and styling support to deploying the application into the school-hosted cloud environment.
Education
2017 - 2019
Master's Degree in Information Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Certifications
DECEMBER 2019 - PRESENT
Introduction to Computer Networking
Stanford University | via Stanford Online
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Vue, Vuex, React
Tools
Figma, Webpack, Google Sheets
Languages
HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Sass, C#, Google Apps Script, PHP, TypeScript
Platforms
WordPress, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Red Hat OpenShift
Frameworks
Tailwind CSS, ASP.NET, Nuxt.js
Paradigms
Usability Testing
Other
Data Structures, User Experience (UX), Information Science, Algorithms, Computer Networking, Google Data Studio
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